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Responding to ACEs: Resources for Resilience podcast episodes feature thought-provoking insights regarding the science behind adverse childhood experiences, trauma, and resilience. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are stressful, traumatic events experienced in a child’s or adolescent’s life. ACEs are very common, most Americans have at least one, and they can happen to anyone. The experiences and environments during our childhood and developing years have a tremendous impact on health across the lifespan -- as they can alter the architecture of our developing brain and body. 

Experts appearing in the series provide education for professionals. practitioners in the field, and community-based health providers, on new approaches for addressing trauma, promoting resilience and positively impacting the health and wellness of children and families. Experts share perspectives on putting science into practice, highlighting strategies and evidence-based approaches for incorporating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices into physician’s offices, organizations, schools and communities.

Episodes discuss the expanding evidence across fields of neuroscience, genetics and epidemiology and spotlight the dramatic links between adverse childhood experiences, stunted physiological development, risky behavior, psychological issues, serious illnesses and the leading causes of death. Information on how trauma impacts the developing brain, how children can be impacted and protected, factors influencing the variable response to adversity and the challenges of preventing and recognizing the effect of trauma on children will be explored along with implications for all those in medical settings who care for children - from caregivers and clinicians to administrators and advocates.

• Topic 1:  Defining Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Their Detrimental Effect on the Health of Children and Adults.
• Topic 2: The Physiological Effects of Trauma and Toxic Stress on the Brain.
• Topic 3: Assessing for ACEs.
• Topic 4: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: An Evidence-Based Intervention to Reduce the Impact of Adverse Experiences in Early Childhood.
• Topic 5: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: an Evidence-Based Intervention.
• Topic 6: Adults Dealing with ACEs.

Special thanks to CMU clinical faculty experts featured in the series (in alphabetical order):

• Kai Anderson, M.D.
• Sarah Domoff, Ph.D.
• Onoriode Edeh, M.D.
• Cheryl Geisthardt, Ph.D.
• James Gerhart, Ph.D.
• Furhut Janssen, D.O.
• John Lopes Jr., P.A.
• Lourdes Morales-Dopico, M.D.
• Larissa Niec, Ph.D.
• Kyle Rutledge, M.D.

This series is a collaborative production of Central Michigan University’s College of the Arts and Media, the Covenant HealthCare College of Medicine at CMU, and the CMU Rural Health Excellence Institute.

We are grateful for funding support from a collaborative grant from the CMU College of Arts and Media that has made this podcast series possible.

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